PIERRE DE COUBERTIN, the French aristocrat who founded the modern Olympics, was seduced by the world's fair. In 1900, 1904 and 1908 his games were embedded within such exhibitions. He soured on the arrangement eventually because the games were overshadowed, "reduced to the role of humiliated vassal", as he put it. The Olympics still criss-crosses the globe, but with city after city ditching ambitions to put on the world's largest sporting event, the model is under threat.
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机译：发起现代奥林匹克运动的法国贵族皮埃尔·德·库伯汀（PIERRE DE COUBERTIN）被世博会所吸引。 1900年，1904年和1908年，他的游戏被嵌入到此类展览中。最终，他对这种安排感到失望，因为比赛被遮盖了，就像他所说的那样“沦为羞辱的附庸”。奥运会仍在全球范围内纵横交错，但随着一个城市接一个城市放弃举办世界上最大的体育赛事的雄心壮志，这种模式正受到威胁。
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